This is an absolutely insane position to take. There are countless legitimate reasons for someone to be on your property without your knowledge. Workers from the electric or water utility trying to fix your services after a storm, for one. What if there is an emergency and firefighters need to rescue you from a blaze or EMT workers need to get into your house where you are having a heart attack? What if police are tracking a dangerous fugitive in the area and come into your yard or back yard to make sure he isn't hiding behind your tool shed? What if you get into a major car accident and a relative tries to swing by your place to get a change of clothes and some paperwork for you while you're still unconscious and unable to warn them?
Legitimate defense requires discrimination. If you have a gun and a dog, you can tell the difference between all those things I listed and a junkie trying to steal the copper out of your AC unit or a burglar trying to break in and you can decide in the moment whether or not shooting or whether or not calling your dog back are appropriate.
You can also add in home security systems, surveillance cameras, motion sensor fog lights and sturdy locks to further protect your family and property, but no, boobytraps are an insane and unjustifiable idea.
My comment was responding more specifically to his statements that boobytraps in general should be his right on his private property. But more specifically to the point of the sign, "These signs are put out by the road. You know, where burried water and electric lines are, that a utilities worker might be servicing. So a utilities worker may need to move the sign to do their job, which was the first example I gave of someone having legitimate reasons to be on his property."*
This is an absolutely insane position to take. There are countless legitimate reasons for someone to be on your property without your knowledge. Workers from the electric or water utility trying to fix your services after a storm, for one. What if there is an emergency and firefighters need to rescue you from a blaze or EMT workers need to get into your house where you are having a heart attack? What if police are tracking a dangerous fugitive in the area and come into your yard or back yard to make sure he isn't hiding behind your tool shed? What if you get into a major car accident and a relative tries to swing by your place to get a change of clothes and some paperwork for you while you're still unconscious and unable to warn them?
Legitimate defense requires discrimination. If you have a gun and a dog, you can tell the difference between all those things I listed and a junkie trying to steal the copper out of your AC unit or a burglar trying to break in and you can decide in the moment whether or not shooting or whether or not calling your dog back are appropriate.
You can also add in home security systems, surveillance cameras, motion sensor fog lights and sturdy locks to further protect your family and property, but no, boobytraps are an insane and unjustifiable idea.
Why do the firefighters need to steal your sign?
My comment was responding more specifically to his statements that boobytraps in general should be his right on his private property. But more specifically to the point of the sign, "These signs are put out by the road. You know, where burried water and electric lines are, that a utilities worker might be servicing. So a utilities worker may need to move the sign to do their job, which was the first example I gave of someone having legitimate reasons to be on his property."*
*copied from another comment of mine